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Gov. Ibrahim Gaidam of Yobe State on Thursday directed a sleeping commissioner at the presentation of the 2017 budget to the State House of Assembly to go home for more sleep. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the governor had barely commenced reading the budget speech when the cabinet member started snoring. Mr. Gaidam warned that any public officer henceforth caught sleeping stood sacked. “As from today, any commissioner or special adviser caught sleeping stands sacked and will immediately be replaced. “We will borrow a leaf from the North Korea experience to make government affairs a serious business,” he said. Mr. Gaidam while reviewing the budget performance of the outgoing year paused and directed the sleeping commissioner to go home. “I am referring to the commissioner who is sleeping, you can go back home to sleep since you cannot endure the session,” he said. Although the governor did not mention the name of the sleeping commissioner, he point...

He had a bright red banner declaring: "Miss Li, I love you! Marry me" which was unveiled as the teacher, named Miss Li arrived on campus as the Chinese secondary school. As more and more pupils came out to watch, the boy stood holding a bouquet of flowers. Next to him stood one of his friends who was playing what looked like a small guitar or a ukulele, with his voice belting out from an amplifier on the ground nearby. In the now viral video of the incident, the teacher can be heard saying: "Stop, stop fooling around. Please get up," while she tries to stand him stand back up. But the boy continues to hold the bouquet and refuses to give up. The teacher, growing impatient, shouts back: "I have a boyfriend." But the teacher loses her temper, throws the flowers at him, throws the instrument to the ground and kicks over the amp. Before storming off she could be heard saying: "I have a boyfriend. I told you to stop fooling around. I...

Pictured is the beautiful young co-pilot who was interviewed -hours before she was killed in the Colombia plane crash. Sisy Arias, who was on her first flight as a civilian co-pilot, was speaking moments before the jet took off from Bolivia. Sitting in the cockpit of the plane, the 29-year-old, who is well known as a model in Colombia, told of her pride at transporting the Brazilian football team Chapecoense to their Copa Sudamericana final in Medellin. But just hours later, the flight ended in tragedy when the plane smashed into a mountainside killing 71 on board and leaving just six survivors. Arias tells the interviewer: ' One of the things that is very important to know is that the team is using a Bolivian airline to take them to Medellin, even if they are a Brazilian team.' Her devastated family said their lives would never be the same.

Comedian Klint Da Drunk and his wife, Lilien are celebrating their daughter, Adaora's 1st birthday today. Beautiful new family photos were shared via their respective Instagram accounts. Happy Birthday to the little girl. See more photos after the cut.

A man who looks more like a thug than a teacher has been arrested after he allegedly battered a 7 year old boy. Read the report from MediaTakeOut.com below... According to reports, 25-year-old Timothy Randall Korr, was teaching the 7 year old boy – when he became “disruptive”. Timothy began physically restraining the young man, and took him to the principal’s office. One administrator recalled what happened when the boy arrived at the office. “The teacher told me that he put him over his shoulder, and when he put him down he was bleeding,” Jackson recalled. “That’s it. How can you tell somebody like that? He said he made a mistake. He said, ‘I made a mistake. It was a mistake.’ That’s what he said.” The poor boy had his jaw broken and that two of his adult teeth were knocked out. Police examined school security footage, and child abuse detectives obtained an arrest warrant for Timothy. He's been charged with multiple counts of felony child abuse. Timoth...

Hal Carmichael, whose mother Cheryl was married to Kanye’s father, has spoken out about over Kanye’s hospitalisation. Although Hal has not seen Kanye since 2014, their families reportedly remain close and he even attended his wedding to Kim in Italy. Hal, who lives in San Antonio, Texas, spoke exclusively to The Sun UK... According to him; “No one thought Paris would happen in a million years and now he’s seen it happen to Kim, it’s traumatising. Ye is tired, he’s hurt, he feels betrayed and he’s probably feeling depressed. “It’s like who can he trust? You can’t trust anyone, even the people you’ve been paying to protect you. They haven’t been doing their jobs correctly. I think Kanye got to a point when he was fearing for his life and for his family’s safety because of what went down in Paris – I think it took a toll on him. He ends up walking about worrying and thinking, who’s going to do what to me?” Hal reveals that the family were surprised when they foun...